Excerpt: ... Four thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. Chilcox Four thousand eight hundred and two." The silence seemed to fall to earth, and break into a thousand pieces. Through the pandemonium of cheers and groaning, Courtier with all his strength forced himself towards the balcony. He could see Lord Valleys leaning forward with a broad smile; Lady Valleys passing her hand across her eyes; Barbara with her hand in Harbinger's, looking straight into his face. He stopped. The old Chartist was still beside him, tears ...
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Excerpt: ... Four thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. Chilcox Four thousand eight hundred and two." The silence seemed to fall to earth, and break into a thousand pieces. Through the pandemonium of cheers and groaning, Courtier with all his strength forced himself towards the balcony. He could see Lord Valleys leaning forward with a broad smile; Lady Valleys passing her hand across her eyes; Barbara with her hand in Harbinger's, looking straight into his face. He stopped. The old Chartist was still beside him, tears rolling down his cheeks into his beard. Courtier saw Miltoun come forward, and stand, unsmiling, deathly pale. PART II CHAPTER I At three o'clock in the afternoon of the nineteenth of July little Ann Shropton commenced the ascent of the main staircase of Valleys House, London. She climbed slowly, in the very middle, an extremely small white figure on those wide and shining stairs, counting them aloud. Their number was never alike two days running, which made them attractive to one for whom novelty was the salt of life. Coming to that spot where they branched, she paused to consider which of the two flights she had used last, and unable to remember, sat down. She was the bearer of a message. It had been new when she started, but was already comparatively old, and likely to become older, in view of a design now conceived by her of travelling the whole length of the picture gallery. And while she sat maturing this plan, sunlight flooding through a large window drove a white refulgence down into the heart of the wide polished space of wood and marble, whence she had come. The nature of little Ann habitually rejected fairies and all fantastic things, finding them quite too much in the air, and devoid of sufficient reality and 'go'; and this refulgence, almost unearthly in its travelling glory, passed over her small head and played strangely with the pillars in the hall, without exciting in her any fancies or any sentiment. The intention of...
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Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. The cover is rubbed, lighlty chipping at corners and tips. Out of print. Pages are clean, text unmarked, binding tight.
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Ex-Library. First printing. Galsworthy is best remembered as the author of "The Forsyte Saga." He was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. He was an outspoken advocate for the women's suffrage movement, prison reform and animal rights. Ex-library with sunned spine and minimal markings, lacking a dustjacket. Still a good reading copy.
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Good with no dust jacket; Ex-Library; 8vo-8" to 9" tall; 451 pages; Ex-Library w/usual markings pocket attached. Brownish library binding rubbed at edges, hinges and corners. This is the DEVON EDITION of NOVELS, TALES, and PLAYS by John Galsworthy volume 8.
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